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Middle Miocene (Upper Badenian/Sarmatian) Palaeoecology and Evolution of the Environments in the Area of Medvednica Mt. (North Croatia)

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Title (Dublin Core)

eng Middle Miocene (Upper Badenian/Sarmatian) Palaeoecology and Evolution of the Environments in the Area of Medvednica Mt. (North Croatia)

Description (Dublin Core)

eng In the area of Medvednica Mt., the Upper Badenian and Sarmatian deposits are divided into four facies associations: (A) deposits of a small carbonate platform represented by breccia, conglomerates, biocalcirudites, biocalcarenites and biocalclutites; (B) open-sea deposits composed of marls with intercalations of clay; (C) nearshore deposits of reduced salinity composed of conglomerates, sandstones, biocalcarenites, biocalcirudites and biocalclutites, and (D) lagoonal deposits represented by spongitic calclutites with clay, marl and sand intercalations. Deposits of these facies associations contain numerous and very diverse fossil species with very different palaeoecological characteristics, from shallow- and deeper-water normal marine to shallow- and deeper-water environment of reduced salinity, even of fresh-water.

The transition from Late Badenian to Sarmatian deposition was characterized by three different unconformities and one conformity. Unconformities are located between different lithologies reflecting an amount of uplifting and erosion at the end of the Badenian. The occurrence of an angular unconformity suggests the influence of local tectonics.

The Middle Miocene deposition shows different local variations but generally fits with the evolution of Central Paratethys and the Pannonian Basin System.

Creator (Dublin Core)

VRSALJKO, Davor
PAVELIĆ, Davor
MIKNIĆ, Mirjana
BRKIĆ, Mato
KOVAČIĆ, Marijan
HEĆIMOVIĆ, Ivan
HAJEK-TADESSE, Valentina
AVANIĆ, Radovan
KURTANJEK, Nenad

Subject (Dublin Core)

eng Middle Miocene; Palaeoecology; Environments; Stratigraphic Boundaries; Medvednica Mt.; North Croatia; Central Paratethys

Publisher (Dublin Core)

Croatian Geological Survey

Date (Dublin Core)

2006

Type (Dublin Core)

text
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Format (Dublin Core)

application/pdf

Identifier (Dublin Core)

https://hrcak.srce.hr/10309
eng https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/15842

Source (Dublin Core)

Geologia Croatica
ISSN 1330-030X (Print)
ISSN 1333-4875 (Online)
Volume 59
Issue 1

Language (Dublin Core)

eng

Rights (Dublin Core)

info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Full text of articles are freely accessable. Subscription to print issue is 500,00 Kn (80 Eur) per volume.